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Tomas Venclova
from Poetry in Motion
Tomas Venclova, born in Klaipėda (Lithuania) in 1937, is a Lithuanian poet and essayist. He emigrated from Lithuania (then occupied by the USSR) in 1977 as a member of the dissident movement. He taught Russian, Polish and Lithuanian literature at Yale University for many years, and is now a Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures there. A winner of several national and international prizes, he has published more than fifty books (his poetry, written exclusively in Lithuanian, has been translated into twentyodd languages, including English, Gaelic, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.).
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From The Junction: Selected Poems
Translated from Lithuanian by Ellen Hinsey (Bloodaxe Books, 2008)
Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher
